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was at Dr. Hooker's advice those Englishmen who attended the St. Petersburg 
Exhibition were not decorated. 
The tenth and concluding part of Seemann’s ‘Flora Vitiensis’ is now in the 
course of preparation, all ii plates (100) having already been 
Dr. F. Mueller's able * Official Report on the Melbourne Botaniosl Gadu for 
1869’ has just come to hand, and will be found in another part of this Journal. 
A Pharmaceutical Congress, to which all civilized nations are invited to send 
—À is to take place at Vienna in September. 
* Portland (Maine) Advertiser' was recently printed on paper made of 
a kind of material said to have been never before used in the manufacture of 
paper—Zizania aquatica, or Water Rice. It grows in great abundance in 
n; erica. 
Mr. Collins, whose paper on India-rubber appeared in this Journal last y: 
is now working up the subject of Gutta Percha, and would be glad if any du our 
correspondents could communicate any authentic specimens, etc. of any of the 
Guttas, as Gutta Mutah, Tuban, Percha Claison, etc., addressing them to the 
Museum of the Pharmaceutical Society, Bloomsbury Square, London. 
EDINBURGH BOTANICAL Socrery.—Thirty-third Session, Fifth Meeting. — 
The Society met on the 11th of March, Dr. Cleghorn, President, in the chair. 
to Si February, 18 y Dr. H. Cleghorn. Dr. Cleghorn described 
the present state of the Botanical Gardens at Syracuse, Catania, and ^ 
and enumerated the principal plants obse in flowe the time of his 
v e described the scenery of the island, and drew attention to em: 
increased facilitie es of travelling afforded by two railways now 
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Bengal (vide p. 155). III. Notes on a Visit to the Hot Springs of Jumnotri in 
1860. Part2. By Mr. Wm. Bell. IV. On the M " ton sig Leaf. 
By Dr. Joseph Bullar. The author = that t of leaf w 
ubi corolla, and the other whorls of ilie flowers. m rofessors Balfour ani 
I. Report on the Open-Air Vegetation at the "iem Botanie Garden 
€ M'Nab. VII. Miscellanous Communications. 1. Dr. Buchanan White 
presented specimens of Funaria Hibernica , which he had collected i in Septe em- 
some remarks regarding the indurated structure of the albumen in the seed of 
Convallaria majalis, preparations of which he exhibited under the microscope. 
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